IWC Schaffhausen
Introducing the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOPGUN Edition “SFTI”
IWC Schaffhausen
Introducing the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOPGUN Edition “SFTI”
This was how it all started for, the now retired, CAPT Jim DiMatteo who ended up forging a 25-year long career as a US Navy aviator with far reaching credentials. CAPT DiMatteo joined the Navy after graduating from the University of California Berkeley, in 1986. He then went on to graduate from the Navy Fighter Weapons School and was even deployed into combat — including the 1990 Operation Desert Storm — before being recruited by TOPGUN Adversary squadron.
“The whole TOPGUN Adversary world, from the fighter pilot perspective, it’s the our coup de grâce. It’s the pinnacle of what we can do, as far as making the national team, if you will, and representing the best of the best for your country, for your particular skillset,” explains CAPT DiMatteo. “It’s something that everybody’s very proud of. To be able to be selected, to be one of the Adversary guys and prepare somebody else. It is very rewarding to fly and achieve your own goals. And it is even more so rewarding to fly and help achieve goals for another pilot”.
Shares CAPT DiMatteo, “When I was training to become a TOPGUN Adversary pilot, it was the hardest that I’d ever worked. Anything that you work so hard for, and then you achieve — it’s like setting yourself out to climb an incredible mountain and actually making it to the top — it’s kind of like that, you know, it’s like you’re standing on top of the mountain.
“Our version of the view we bring back from the top of that mountain is a patch that we earn when we’ve graduated. It’s the official TOPGUN patch that you put on your shoulder. It’s a matter of a huge accomplishment and pride for us, because no matter where you are, this patch identifies you as part of something greater than yourself.”
But if you do want to feel like a part of the fraternity, IWC is announcing today the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOPGUN Edition “SFTI”, limited to 1500 pieces. While the new watch takes inspiration from the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition “Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor”, you’re not going have the hallowed patch on the dial. There is, however, an engraving of said patch on the caseback.
Few mortals are able to attain the heights of life goals that people the likes of CAPT DiMatteo are able to achieve. For the rest of us, let’s be thankful that IWC creates watches the likes of the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOPGUN Edition “SFTI,” that allow us a taste of something greater than ourselves.
Movement
Self-winding IWC-manufacture calibre 69380; hours and minutes; small running seconds; chronograph with 30-minute and 12-hour totalizer; day-date; 46-hour power reserve
Case
44mm ceramic case with Ceratanium caseback; water-resistant to 60m
Strap
Green textile strap
Price & Limitation
Priced at CHF 10,900; limited edition of 1,500 pieces[/td_block_text_with_title]